...you see just ONE episode and you could tell the following vets had a bunch of story:

One thing I loved about JER's writing was the pacing. Yes, it was slow, but it was even, and just enough happened each episode that you wanted to tune in tomorrow. I know MarDar said in interviews that they were doing that, but they weren't. With JER, there was always some mini-cliffhanger, with Fridays being more of a cliffhanger. Whenever we post a JER episode here, it's self-contained enough that people can get the idea of what's going on, and you usually wonder what happens next.